MEDICAMENT FILLING UNIT

• US 3,807,467 A
• Filed: 02/11/1972
• Issued: 04/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sherwood Medical Company (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Edward R. Tascher, Elmer A. Koenig
• Inventors: Koenig, Elmer A., Tascher, Edward R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Jr., Houston S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gorenstein, Charles
• Application Number:
  US05/225,647
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 141/18,25-27,329,330,382,369,375 222/4,80-82,85,86,325,399,400.5,400.7 248/312 53/282 128/214,214E,214F,DIG.12,DIG.13
• US Class Current: 141/375
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/201 having one piercing end
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2013 having two piercing ends
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2075 for external venting
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2082 for gas filtration
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2096 Combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2207/00 Methods of manufacture, assembly or production
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1782 Devices aiding filling of syringes in situ combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents A61J1/2096, filling of medical containers in general B65B3/003
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/003 Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like

Abstract

A container, container cap, tubing and nozzle unit for filling a plurality of syringes, adapted for disposal after medicament in the container has been exhausted to minimize or eliminate contamination to an associated syringe filling machine, including a container filled with medicament having a seal over the open end of the container, a cap for the container having selfpiercing connectors which are pushed through the container seal upon capping of the container, the cap being provided with a groove permitting simple releasable connection of the unit in the syringe filling machine, there being provided a first plastic tube connected to the cap and communicating with one of the connectors and having a free end that is releasably connected to an outlet fitting of a pump associated with the syringe filling machine, there also being provided a second tube connected to the container cap and communicating with the other connector for delivering medicament from the container to a filling station in the associated machine, with an integral nozzle provided on the end of the second tube so that the medicament does not come in contact with any portion of the filling machine.

Claims

1. A syringe medicament filling system, comprising:

frame means, pump means on said frame means having an inlet and an outlet fitting on said frame means, a filling station on said frame means having means or positioning a syringe to be filled, a disposable medicament container on said frame means having a connector cap thereon, and tubing means releasably connecting said container to the outlet fitting, said connector cap and frame means having interengaging means or releasably retaining the cap and container in position, said interengaging means including a pair of spaced guides on said frame means, and recess means on said cap sized to be snugly received by said frame guides.

2. A syringe medicament filling system as defined in claim 1, wherein said frame means in constructed to hold said container in an inverted position.

3. A medicament filling system for a syringe, comprising:

frame means, pump means on said frame means having an outlet fitting on said frame means, a filling station on said frame means having means for positioning a syringe, nozzle support means at said filling station, a disposable dispensing unit including a container, cap means on said container, first tube means connected to said cap means and releasably connected to said pump means fitting, second tube means connected to said cap means and having a nozzle at one end, said nozzle being releasably held by said nozzle support means, and means on said frame means for releasably holding said container, whereby the container, cap means and tube means may be removed from the system as a unit, said cap means having a recess therein, said means on said frame means for releasably holding said container including spaced guide means on said frame means releasably engaged in said cap means recess.